Clearing the Exhaust Headers

9-13-2012  I went out to visit the shop.  Dan is working hard to get the left front fender finished.  It's basically a good sound fender, but it has a lot of surface irregularities -- high and low spots.  He also showed me an article he had seen and copied that describes how an Australian chap built the blisters on the sides of his hood to clear the valve covers of a V-8 engine.  We'll be facing that in the near future.  We also discussed how far back to cut the right fender where it barely misses the exhaust header.  Interestingly, this situation only exists on the passenger side of the engine.  When you look at the clearance on each side, it's obvious that the engine is offset to that side, even though the centerline of the crankshaft is along the centerline of the car.